NCBFAA protests Customs plan for disciplining brokers

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America has come out against a U.S. Customs proposal to improve due process procedures for suspending a broker's entry-filer code, saying that going after the code is a back-door way of trying to take away a broker's license and is unconstitutional. Customs and Border Protection has been frustrated for years with the amount of time it takes to deactivate filer codes for problematic brokers. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Feb. 26, CBP explained how it intends to revoke entry filer codes as well as loss of privileges to use immediate delivery and remote location filing procedures for customs entries, along with some due process provisions. The r...